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Bilateral Investment Treaties: Last Resort Strategy to Mitigate Political Risks? [PDF]
Revista de Management Comparat International, 2018 Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), and in particular the possibility that they offer international arbitration of disputes between the foreign investor and the host country, represent one of the methods that multinational corporations (MNCs) can use ...
Violeta IFTINCHI, Gheorghe HURDUZEU
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The (Political) Economics of Bilateral Investment Treaties—The Unique Trajectory of Brazil
EconomiesBrazil, after signing several traditional Bilateral Investment Treaties without ratifying them, recently shifted towards a different type of bilateral investment agreement, i.e., Investment Cooperation and Facilitation Agreements.
Christian Bellak, Markus Leibrecht
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Dispute Settlement in Investment-Related Matters: South Africa and the BRICS
AJIL Unbound, 2018 Many states use investment treaties to spur economic development by granting legal protections to foreign investors and providing for direct enforcement before international arbitral tribunals. Yet South Africa has taken a different course.
Engela C. Schlemmer
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Brazil’s New Investment Treaty Model: Why Now?
Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2022 The investment treaty regime, unlike other economic regimes, lacks common substantive multilateral rules and depends on countries signing bilateral or plurilateral investment treaties.
Lucas S. Amorim, Henrique Z. Menezes
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Political risk insurance and bilateral investment treaties: a view from below [PDF]
, 2010 The author reviews evidence from a survey of political risk insurance providers on the consideration of bilateral investment treaties when assessing the risk of investment projects.
Poulsen, Lauge Skovgaard
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Brexit and Its Impact on EU Financial Markets
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of Brexit on volatility spillovers across the EU countries. We introduce a Brexit intensity measure that assigns an intensity score reflective of the financial markets' reaction to the events that occurred as Brexit negotiations began to unfold.
Marwan Izzeldin +3 more
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Treaty Conflicts in Investment Arbitration
Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2012 The thesis assesses one of the core problems arising in international investment law, namely, the conflicts that international investment treaties may create with other international agreements.
Ahmad Ali Ghouri
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THE DECIMATION OF THE INTRA EU BITS [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2018 The article concentrates on the process which led to the decimation of the intra-EU Bilateral Investment Treaties, due the affirmation of the public policy of European Union which takes precedence over the international obligations arisen for states ...
Beatrice Onica JARKA
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Soft Power in Trade: Quantifying the Impact of Confucius Institutes on China's Exports
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of Confucius Institutes (CIs) as a form of China's cultural diplomacy and their impact on international trade, particularly exports. Using a gravity model, we analyze data from 1990 to 2019 across countries, finding that the presence of CIs significantly boosts China's exports.
Renjing Chen, Wei Jin, Tangrui Yang
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Examining New Donors in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do emerging donors integrate into the existing international aid architecture? While the existing literature focuses largely on emerging donors from the Global South, such as Brazil, China, India and Russia, there are many emerging donors from the Global North that have joined the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC)—the premier ...
Nicolas Bau +3 more
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